Summary of Grade 5 Term 4 Exam Study Guidelines
This study guide is designed to help you ace your Grade 5, Term 4 exams. It covers all the subjects you'll be tested on, from Life Skills to Mathematics, giving you a clear idea of what to focus on. Remember to use your textbooks and any extra notes from class to help you prepare.
Life Skills
- Term 3:
- Festivals and customs: Learn about different celebrations and traditions.
- Safety measures: Know how to stay safe at home and in your community.
- Water as a basic need: Understand why water is important and how to use it wisely.
- Healthy eating: Learn about good food choices for a healthy body.
- Term 4:
- Local environmental health problems: Understand issues affecting your environment.
- Dealing with stigma of HIV and AIDS: Learn about HIV and AIDS and how to treat everyone with respect.
- Substance abuse: Know the dangers of using harmful substances.
Physical Education
- What is a fracture: Understand what happens when a bone breaks.
- Ways to identify a fracture: Learn how to spot the signs of a broken bone.
- Why is warming up important: Know why you need to warm up before exercise.
- How to deal with a nosebleed: Learn what to do if you or someone else has a nosebleed.
Creative Arts
- Visual Elements: Focus on scale, shape, and form in art.
- Visual Literacy: Understand how scale is used in art.
- Impressionism: Learn about this style of art.
- Earth Art: Explore art that uses natural materials.
English CW (Creative Writing)
- Narrative Essay:
- Write a story that is 180-200 words long.
- Plan your story using a mind map, write a rough draft, and then create your final copy.
- Use good grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Use descriptive language.
- Include similes, metaphors, and personification.
- Write in the past tense.
- Informational Text:
- Give your writing a clear title.
- Write a short introduction.
- Use numbered or bullet-point steps.
- Use imperative verbs (like "Gather," "Plan," "Avoid").
- Make sure your spelling and punctuation are correct.
Afrikaans CW
- Verhalende opstel (narrative essay): Write a story in Afrikaans.
- Vriendskaplike brief (friendly letter): Write a friendly letter in Afrikaans.
Natural Sciences & Technology
- Energy, Change & Systems:
- Safety with electricity: Learn how to stay safe around electricity.
- Stored energy systems: Understand how energy can be stored.
- Coal-burning power station: Know how it works.
- Drawing an electric circuit: Be able to draw a simple circuit.
- Planet Earth & Beyond:
- Earth's movements: Learn how the Earth moves.
- Soil types: Know different types of soil and what they are used for.
- Sedimentary rock: Understand how it is used.
- Body & trace fossils: Learn about different types of fossils.
- How sedimentary rock forms: Know the steps.
- Scientific Report:
- Write a report based on an experiment.
- Include the aim, investigative question, hypothesis, a bar graph of the results, and a conclusion.
Social Sciences
- Geography (Term 3):
- The weather, climate, and vegetation of South Africa: Learn about the different types of weather, climate, and plants in South Africa.
- History (Term 3):
- An ancient African Society: Egypt: Study ancient Egyptian society.
- Geography (Term 4):
- Minerals and mining in South Africa: Learn about the minerals found in South Africa and how they are mined.
- History (Term 4):
- A heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa: Explore the history and heritage of different provinces.
English (Wednesday)
- Comprehension:
- Read key parts of Boy by Roald Dahl.
- Focus on characters, setting, and the prank.
- Understand how the story shows feelings, choices, and consequences.
- Explain how the author uses humour and tension.
- Poetry:
- Understand rhyme, rhythm, and repetition.
- Identify the speaker and theme of the poem.
- Recognize figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification).
- Explain the mood or feelings in the poem.
- Share your own opinion about the poem.
- Visual Text:
- Study posters or adverts carefully.
- Identify the main purpose (to inform, entertain, or persuade).
- Understand visual clues (colours, emojis, layout).
- Recognize text features (heading, slogan, date, place, pictures).
- Write your own short slogan or message for a poster.
- Language Structure and Conventions:
- Parts of Speech: Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions, Articles.
- Verbs: Finite, Non-finite, Linking, Helping.
- Clauses: Main and Subordinate Clauses.
- Sentence Types: Simple, Compound, Complex.
- Punctuation: Capital letters, commas, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, quotation marks.
- Subject-Verb Agreement: The subject and verb must match correctly.
- Tenses: Past, Present, Future (be careful with irregular verbs).
- Figures of Speech: Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Idiom, Proverb.
- Editing Skills: Correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
- Direct & Indirect Speech: Know how to change between them.
- Vocabulary: Understand meanings of words from the exam text.
- Rearranging Sentences: Put jumbled words into the correct order.
Robotics
- Robot: What it is and its components.
- Gears: What they are.
- Pulleys: What they are and why they are used.
- Sensors: What they are and types.
- Algorithms: What they are, features, and types.
- Digital devices: What they are and basic parts.
- The Internet: Plagiarism, Copyright, Piracy, Identity theft, Cyber bullying, Hacking, Cybercrimes.
- Scratch: Different blocks and how to fix errors.
Mathematics
- Numbers, operations and relationships:
- Place value of numbers.
- Rounding.
- Odd and even numbers.
- Prime numbers.
- Addition and Subtraction.
- Multiplication and division.
- Word problems.
- Patterns, functions and algebra:
- Number patterns.
- Geometric patterns.
- Input and output (Spider diagram / flow diagram).
- Space and shape:
- 2D shapes.
- 3D shapes.
- Vertices, faces, edges of a shape.
- Reflection and line of symmetry.
- Measurement:
- Perimeter and area.
- Time.
- Length(mm, cm, m km).
- Mass (g, kg).
- Volume/ capacity (ml, L).
- Word problems.
- Common and decimal fractions:
- Equivalent fractions.
- Simplify fractions.
- Adding and subtracting common fractions.
- Fractions of a whole.
- Adding and subtracting decimal fractions.
- Converting fractions to decimals.
Conclusion:
This study guide gives you a clear plan for your Grade 5, Term 4 exams. Focus on each subject, use your notes and textbooks, and ask your teacher if you need help. All the best with your studies, sharp-sharp!
